For perspective, the ATLAS [1] experiment at the LHC records O(400 MB/sec). To disk. Permanently. (With a duty cycle of something like ~0.5, in principle). So,

For perspective, the ATLAS [1] experiment at the LHC records O(400 MB/sec). To disk. Permanently. (With a duty cycle of something like ~0.5, in principle). So, I guess that's a different ballgame than temporary acquisition for decision making, but still. A decade ago it seemed like an insane amount of data and now it is becoming more normal by the day.. ATLAS "sees" something more like 1.5 MB * 40 MHz, but the vast majority of it is discarded after at most three seconds and there is zero suppression involved. Most of "the full data for a collision" isn't even involved in the decision making whether to keep a particular event. [1] http://atlas.ch/ http://atlas.ch/